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Irregular expressions regularly
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Improving Incrementally
I've been fortunate enough to have received plenty of great advice and feedback lately in relation to my blog entries which - of course - leads one to further contemplate the meaning of life :-)
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On your marks, get {BANG} set, go. Woops, missed the start again!
I'm just coming to the end of my first project for a new company that I started with 3 months ago and I feel that I'll have a lot to blog about in regard to project management and task-oriented disciplines. We got to feature complete and I did the first, full build of the app. tonight; tomorrow the application goes into "test" so, I'll be eager to see how close we got :-)
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Code Library for .NET
Today Paschal pointed me in the direction of "Code Library" which is a tool that stores code snippets and images etc. The site contains a nice overview of the features and compares them with other code library tools.
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CreateDate - create a DataTable with some data in it...
I'm sick of writing this function so, I'll just park it here :-)
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Generate Amazon Links Quickly and Easily
To generate Amazon links quickly I use this tool:
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Goodbye cruel world
While browsing the web tonight I learned this interesting titbit:
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SqlDataReader.Dispose( [I think]true ) ;
I've finally started doing some application development again (it's been a while), and had to construct a bunch of DataTier methods and classes. I did lots of data access but, one of the things that I noticed was that I didn't use a single data reader! Maybe I'm missing something, and maybe (likely) I've just constructed a poor app. but, I just couldn't think of a single place to use one.
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Picking random guys
Ron just asked me to demo how I thought the Random guy selector would be implemented so, I thought I'd crank out a quickie demo. First, I'll create a Guy type:
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New problems, new algorithms
I couldn't help but blog this. On the [C# lang] list the following question was asked:
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How to build a cool "Windows Media Player"-Like UI
The other day I noticed that Cory Smith blogged somewhere that he was planning to write some articles about how to build "Windows Media Player"-Like UI's.... looks like he's just posted the first article just now.